SAVE THE DATE! Our first ever Open Source MahaSangha Retreat, June 19-25, 2016. The Open Source is the network of communities in the tradition of Joan Sutherland, Roshi and the Pacific Zen School. Our setting is the lovely Catamount Center,…
This one’s for fun.
Esperanza Spalding’s performance at the Nobel Peace Prize proceedings (Dec. 16, 2009). Lovely and meandering, not a new message but…is it new messages we need? “The road to peace is endless, the journey with open eyes is how we’ll mend…
Then what is the answer? — Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before. When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose…